A USA Today reporter drove from Los Angeles to San Francisco, logging the networks she found: She came up with 77, which includes hotspots in the two cities. After reading this story, I was begging for more information. It's a fun experiment but all we get are stats about how many secured networks she found in an L.A. block. There are tons of reporters who can and probably have reported on hotspots in L.A. I'm more interested in stories from on the road between the cities. The reporter makes brief note of a couple of far-out hotspots on the road but no real interesting stories.